On Wednesday, the Justice Department said that 19-year-old Matthew D. Lane of Sterling, Massachusetts, had entered into a plea agreement for his role in a number of high-profile hacking episodes. The former college student pled guilty to charges related to cyber extortion, as well as aggravated identity theft, and other crimes.

A Massachusetts college student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool and stealing data pertaining to millions of students and teachers that hackers used to extort the company and school districts into paying ransoms.

A Massachusetts man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking into one of the top education tech companies in the U.S. and stealing tens of millions of schoolchildren’s personal information for profit.